Massachusetts Technology Standards and Expectations
G3-5:3.5 Use online tools (e.g., e-mail, online discussion forums, blogs and wikis) to gather and share information collaboratively with other students, if the district allows.
G3-5:3.10 Communicate with other students and other classes using appropriate technology, including e-mail if the district allows it.
Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts and Literacy
L5.4.c Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronounciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
SL5.2 Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL5.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance development of main ideas or themes.
W5.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Massachusetts Foreign Languages Curriculum Framework
Cultures
4.8 Identify patterns of social behavior that are typical of the target culture.
I4.10 Identify distinctive aspects of the target culture presented in print literature, visual arts, films, and videos, and relate these to the cultural perspectives of the target culture.
Comparisons
6.3 Describe some cultural beliefs and perspectives relating to family, school, and play in both target culture and thier own.
6.5 Compare, contrast, and exchange views on an aspect of the target culture.
What will your objectives be -
Technology Objectives: Students will be able to use various multimedia web 2.0 tools to present opinions and information in a clear and organized manner. Students will create a gloster that reflects their opinion on global awareness and information supporting it.
Literacy Objectives: Students will be able to write opinions and present information supporting a point of view, including multimedia components (glogster, wallwisher, voicethread)
Content Objectives: Students will be able to define cultural awareness and form an opinion on it's importance.
How will you assess student outcomes?
Have students create a Glogster integrating all of the information they have gained from the wikispaces lesson. They will present a poster that reflects thier opinion on global awareness and information supporting it.
What strategies will you embed in the activities to help students reach the lesson objectives? www.pollev.com
Are you integrating 21st Century skills and/or technology in your lesson? yes
Can you find any extremely engaging material (such as a virtual tour or experience) on the web related to your unit that might be useful?
Where will the space for inquiry be made? In other words, at what point in the lesson will you allow students to follow an area of interest within your given topic?
When do you plan to teach this lesson? within the first month of school after two lessons on the use of glogster have been taught to the students.
Be sure to reference your virtual notebook and Final Project & Technology Guides. The technology guides provide a quick review of specific
Globally Aware: To Be or Not to Be? That is the Question.
Technology Objectives: Students will be able to use various multimedia web 2.0 tools to present opinions and information in a clear and organized manner. Students will create a gloster that reflects their opinion on global awareness and information supporting it.
Literacy Objectives: Students will be able to write opinions and present information supporting a point of view, including multimedia components (glogster, wallwisher, voicethread)
Content Objectives: Students will be able to define cultural awareness and form an opinion on it's importance.
1. Click on the camel to learn the Essential Questions for this lesson.
2. Click on the "Post a sticky" and respond to the question at the top of the wall.
3. Watch this YouTube video about GAS.
a. After watching the video, click on the comment button below the video.
b. Choose "type" and type your reflections about the video.
If this Voicethread is too small, click hereto get access to a larger image on the Voicethread website.
4. In this next activity, you will be presented with a collection of "onomatopoeia" from around the world.
a. Click here to get the pronunciation, definition, examples in context and websites containing this word. On a separate sheet of paper, respond to the following questions:
a. What part of speech is onomatopoeia?
b. What would be an example of onomatopoeia?
c. Define onomatopoeia in your own words.
BZZZPEEK
5. Click on the picture of the little girl wearing sunglasses to the left. This will bring you to the "bzzzpeek" website. Feel free to navigate through the site. Please click on an animal of your choice around the image of the girl. Then click on the different flags and observe what you hear on your paper. 6. Were there any sounds that you heard that were surprising to you? Yes or no. Try to spell out the noise you heard here, and the animal you clicked on to hear that sound. 7. These sounds are recordings of real native speakers (all children) imitating sounds of mainly animals and vehicles. As much as global awareness is understanding that the world is a singular entity and we are all humans, this website shows us that we are all different. Thinking about global awareness, how could this website be a useful tool for someone that has never left the country?
One way to become more globally aware is to work at understanding situations outside of our own. This is called "putting yourself in someone else's shoes". Imagine if you had the ability to get into another person's body, just by putting on his shoes. What would it be like to see what he sees, to wake up where he wakes up, to eat what he eats or to go to school where he goes to school. In this next activity, you will read an ebook about a Peace Corp volunteer whom had a very unique and different experience in Guatemala. Can you imagine being this volunteer? Can you imagine being the students in the story? What would it be like? How are these people similar to us in Malden, MA, USA? How are they different?
5. Click on the picture below to link you to the ebook.
You will now create a Glogster poster using all of the information you have been exposed to above to answer the essential questions.
Glogster+Rubric.pdfClick on the Glogster Rubric PDF file to the left, save and print to make you aware of exactly what is expected of you for this Glogster.
This poster should be an advertisement supporting your opinion regarding global awareness. It will persuade your audience of your views of global awareness.
You must use at least three images, and one video to support your opinion. They must all be cited appropriately as you learned in the previous lesson.
These three questions must be answered and your Glogster will provide information to back up your opinion.
1. What is Global Awareness?
2. Is it important to be globally aware?
3. What can you do as a student to become more globally aware? Be specific.
12.3 Final Project
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Be sure to reference your virtual notebook and Final Project & Technology Guides. The technology guides provide a quick review of specific
Globally Aware: To Be or Not to Be? That is the Question.
Technology Objectives: Students will be able to use various multimedia web 2.0 tools to present opinions and information in a clear and organized manner. Students will create a gloster that reflects their opinion on global awareness and information supporting it.
Literacy Objectives: Students will be able to write opinions and present information supporting a point of view, including multimedia components (glogster, wallwisher, voicethread)
Content Objectives: Students will be able to define cultural awareness and form an opinion on it's importance.
1. Click on the camel to learn the Essential Questions for this lesson.
2. Click on the "Post a sticky" and respond to the question at the top of the wall.
3. Watch this YouTube video about GAS.
a. After watching the video, click on the comment button below the video.
b. Choose "type" and type your reflections about the video.
If this Voicethread is too small, click hereto get access to a larger image on the Voicethread website.
4. In this next activity, you will be presented with a collection of "onomatopoeia" from around the world.
a. Click here to get the pronunciation, definition, examples in context and websites containing this word. On a separate sheet of paper, respond to the following questions:
a. What part of speech is onomatopoeia?
b. What would be an example of onomatopoeia?
c. Define onomatopoeia in your own words.
6. Were there any sounds that you heard that were surprising to you? Yes or no. Try to spell out the noise you heard here, and the animal you clicked on to hear that sound.
7. These sounds are recordings of real native speakers (all children) imitating sounds of mainly animals and vehicles. As much as global awareness is understanding that the world is a singular entity and we are all humans, this website shows us that we are all different. Thinking about global awareness, how could this website be a useful tool for someone that has never left the country?
One way to become more globally aware is to work at understanding situations outside of our own. This is called "putting yourself in someone else's shoes". Imagine if you had the ability to get into another person's body, just by putting on his shoes. What would it be like to see what he sees, to wake up where he wakes up, to eat what he eats or to go to school where he goes to school. In this next activity, you will read an ebook about a Peace Corp volunteer whom had a very unique and different experience in Guatemala. Can you imagine being this volunteer? Can you imagine being the students in the story? What would it be like? How are these people similar to us in Malden, MA, USA? How are they different?
5. Click on the picture below to link you to the ebook.
Ebook in English
EBook in Spanish
You will now create a Glogster poster using all of the information you have been exposed to above to answer the essential questions.
Glogster+Rubric.pdfClick on the Glogster Rubric PDF file to the left, save and print to make you aware of exactly what is expected of you for this Glogster.
This poster should be an advertisement supporting your opinion regarding global awareness. It will persuade your audience of your views of global awareness.
You must use at least three images, and one video to support your opinion. They must all be cited appropriately as you learned in the previous lesson.
These three questions must be answered and your Glogster will provide information to back up your opinion.
1. What is Global Awareness?
2. Is it important to be globally aware?
3. What can you do as a student to become more globally aware? Be specific.
Creating a Glogster